Since Lefty might be our main QB for some time, I thought this merited its own thread. Some very interesting words from Haley:

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Haley reiterated Thursday that his is not a scheme-oriented offense; he instead plays to the strengths of his personnel.

Haley showed that as a coordinator in Arizona and as head coach in Kansas City. Now he will have a chance to will prepare a game plan around Leftwich, who hasn’t started a game in more than three years.

Translation: The dink-and-dunk will be scaled back for at least a couple weeks.

“When I say it is not a system, it is not a system,” Haley said. “It is the way I’ve been brought up to coach, and the way you maximize the players you have is you better play to their strengths. So when Byron is in there, we’re going to do our best to cater to his strengths.”

If he keeps Leftwhich from getting killed and we display that we can sustain any type of offense that keeps us competitive in this game I'll be impressed.

A 16-13 or 17-16 win loss would be equivalent of that for me, somewhere in that range. Maybe Im underestimating the abilities of the Ravens offense and overestimating the ability of their defense? Maybe even 24-13, just if he keeps from getting killed. Any kind of execution and sustained drives will impress me. Perhaps my bar is low.

The real expectation is falling on our defense to come up with something for this one._________________

people have faith in him because of his experince....look at his true starting years in jacksonville...they replace him with Garrad...it did not work...so where they right in there evaluation? That team still doesn't have a QB. So it's not like Lefty has been horrible and played himself out of a starting role. He lost a competition to someone who is not playing now...so thats why people may still have faith in him. He has one glaring weakness...it's his wind up...other good qb's have glaring weakness...like Tony Romo and Phillip Rivers.